Friday, May 20, 2016

Armenians in the Crosshairs - Propaganda Countdown to WWIII

While the two
leaders from Armenia and Azerbaijan met this week and
agreed to comply with the treaty set forth that ended
their bloody six year war back in 1994, both action on the ground along the
Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) Line of Contact as well as the fierce information and
propaganda war belie purported reaffirmations made by both nations’ top
politicians. No one can take the Vienna talks seriously anymore between
Armenia’s President Sargsyan and Azeri President Aliyev for the precise reason
that moments after they were agreeing to uphold another ceasefire yet more
Azeri gunfire, grenade launchers and mortar fire were killing yet another Armenian soldier. In a similar copycat, tit for tat announcement, the Azeri
Ministry of Defense claimed one of its own soldiers was also
killed though unlike the Nagorno-Karabakh
soldier whose name was identified, the alleged Azeri victim remained nameless.
Meanwhile, the day before the Vienna meeting, the defense ministers from
Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia, three out of four of Armenia’s bordering
neighbors, announced joint
military exercises in preparation for war against their
common enemy, the hated Christian neighbor they surround. Only Iran bordering
Armenia to the south will not be practicing war games next spring with them,
remaining sympathetically neutral to Armenia’s right to exist and
self-determine its own fate.

The old “follow the money” adage to uncovering the underlying
truth behind every action and development on the world stage of geopolitics is
always a worthwhile endeavor. What we know from an entrenched recurring pattern
is that the US Empire has obsessed
over attempts to isolate and weaken Russia by cutting off its
natural gas supply to Europe with new pipelines originating in the rich Caspian
Azeri oil fields. President George HW Bush lied to Soviet
President Gorbachev promising not to expand NATO “as much as a thumb's width further to
the East” toward the former Soviet Union and
that Russia could enter NATO. No sooner said than done was US Empire’s betrayal in
recruiting all of Russia’s former Soviet bloc western border nations to joining
NATO and aggressively installing nuclear warhead missiles aimed directly at
Moscow.

These two subversive ploys, expanding the anti-Russian enemy
camp along both Russia and China’s borders while engaging in energy pipeline wars have characterized US foreign policy toward Russia for over a
quarter century. Additionally the US and Europe have imposed economic
sanctions against Russia after Putin reclaimed
his own Crimean naval base the West was about to steal and annexed Crimea after
its citizens voted overwhelmingly to join Russia again in response to the
illegal February 2014 US-induced coup in Ukraine. Hence, the US Empire led by
the notorious Washington neocons have willfully triggered cold war 2 with both Russia and China as the biggest threats to US
unipolar global hegemony. The neocons as globalist puppets are selfishly unwilling to share
power in this world and thus would rather
endanger every life on the planet with a potential nuclear World War III showdown.
The human race be damned, peace and stability are clearly not US Empire
objectives.

This week a $45 billion investment in yet another proposed pipeline route – the TransAdriatic
Pipeline (TAP) - is being christened in Greece by the Greek prime minster, US
State Department officials and reps from Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria and Albania
for delivery of Azerbaijani gas scheduled for flow in early 2020. Just to illustrate
the prioritized significance of cutting off Russia from its number one export
trade partner Europe with Azeri gas and oil, this colossal multi-national
project is Greece’s largest foreign investment ever. US Empire’s been gunning
to take down Russia as its chief global power rival and number one gas supplier
to the entire world.

A week ago a propaganda piece entitled “The Frozen War that
Threatens Global Energy Flows” featured in The National Interest, a conservative
bi-monthly journal whose honorary chairman is NWO globalist Henry Kissinger, vilified Armenians living in Nagorno-Karabakh as ravenous
aggressors destroying 256 Azeri village homes since April 2nd
including in late April well after
the April 5th truce 58 more homes that also
caused power plant explosions taking out electricity to 20 Azeri border towns.
The biased article slants Armenians from both the Republic of Armenia and
Nagorno-Karabakh as a direct strategic threat to Western interests when the reality
is on April 2nd it was Azerbaijan’s armed forces that attempted a surprise attack
invasion in the middle of the night of
Armenia’s ancient Artsakh homeland that’s belonged to Armenians through the
centuries long before the Azeris were even a people or nation.

In a divide and conquer strategy shortly after the Bolshevik
Revolution, in 1921 with Lenin’s authorization Stalin granted the 98%
Armenian populated region of Nagorno-Karabakh
and other Armenian enclaves like Nakhichevan to Azerbaijan. Just prior to the
breakup of the Soviet Union when the outer state republics of Armenia and
Azerbaijan were both due to become independent nations from Russia, the
Nagorno-Karabakh residents in 1988 consisting of 85% Armenians voted in a referendum
for independence in 1991 which then led to all-out Azeri-Armenian war. The
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that really began in 1988 and escalated into a full
blown war from 1991 to 1994 resulted in the loss of 30,000 lives and an
Armenian victory in defense of their ancient homeland.

And ever since the Russian brokered 1994 truce at the Line of
Contact along the border with Azerbaijan there have been near daily military
skirmishes and mortar and rocket fire attacks launched mostly by the revengeful
barbarians at the gate - the Azerbaijani forces. The Armenians who are
safeguarding their homeland have little motivation to attack Azerbaijan unless
in self-defense whereas the Azeris believe the Karabakh Armenians stole their
land and they’re determined to get it back by any violent means necessary. So
in all historical fairness to the sovereign Armenian citizens whose Christian
churches in Artsakh date back to the 5th
century, that enclave should have always
rightfully belonged to Armenians and Armenia.

But The National Interest
article’s pro-Western energy stance having so much invested in pumping Baku gas
and oil to Europe is investing propaganda lies in an information war that’s
been building in recent years. The article’s author, an Azeri energy affairs
analyst, clearly paints the “Armenian
occupiers of Azerbaijan’s long disputed territory” as the repeated aggressor, implying
that a Western led war against Nagorno-Karabakh would not only be in the best
national interest of Azerbaijan but for energy investment purposes in the best
interests of both the United States and Europe as well.

When the aforementioned National
Interest article written by an Azeri oil and gas rep was published on May
10th, another hack Armenia job appeared in that same National Interest journal the exact same
day entitled “Nagorno-Karabakh Isn’t
Disputed Territory – It’s Occupied.” This article was
also written by an Azerbaijani nationalist who had formerly served in
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense. It seems obvious The National Interest is Big Oil interest which explains why the
anti-Armenian Western media blitzkrieg chose to black out documenting any Azeri atrocities taking place during that first week of April against Armenian
civilians living in Nagorno-Karabakh. Among the few media outlets covering the
military conflict, I wrote a series of articles published on Global Research, Lew
Rockwell and Sott.net based on on-the-ground eyewitness
accounts from the war zone. Virtually no mainstream media coverage in the US
accurately reported the attempted Azeri invasion into Artsakh for what it was.
Rather than the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Forces being described as Armenians
defending their ancient homeland, Western media constantly referred to them as
the “occupying force” or “separatists,” avoiding any hint of condemnation
toward the blatant Azeri aggression as clearly the invading force, instead
simply reporting each side blaming the other for starting the worst outbreak of
violence in 22 years.

Yet despite this barrage of false narrative lies, half-truths
and disinformation, in the wake of the voice increasingly heard amongst EU parliament members, cities and mayors across Europe and the US recently calling for formal
recognition of Artsakh as part of Armenia, Azerbaijan has feverishly countered
this growing momentum by sinking millions of dollars (not unlike Turkey’s
Erdogan) on a major publicity campaign using Western MSM to effectively
demonize the Armenians as the heavies. In spite of all the heavy-handed lies
and propaganda, demands for truth and justice cannot be silenced. Just two days
prior to the Azeri incursion into Nagorno-Karabakh, Hawaii became the
seventh state in America to formally recognize
Artsakh as an independent state following Georgia, Louisiana, California,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine.

We’ve seen this same exact rerun before every time US Empire
wants war. The rhetoric and lies get cranked up and out in concentrated nonstop
hype the same way the neocons’ PR campaign was used to sell the 2003 Iraq War
invasion based on the pack of WMD lies falsely linking Saddam to nonexistent nukes and terrorism when
in fact al Qaeda was a US-CIA invention that led to the 9/11 inside job as the
PNAC manufactured means to an end called the “endless war on terror” and subsequent Patriot Act and annual NDAA’s stripping
US citizens of their constitutional liberties at
home. And a decade later a new and improved terrorist brand was reinvented,
secretly armed, financed and supported by the US
again as ISIS in order to fight Empire’s proxy
regime-change war in Syria, expanding to destabilize the entire Middle East and
North Africa and far beyond. The true intent of US foreign policy is one of chaos and destruction
to destabilize the entire world. And as such, the
true global terrorists behind jihadist patsies and their CIA handlers are the neocon traitors in Washington and their globalist
puppet masters!

And now this new round of imperialistic hyped up bullshit is
once again being repeated targeting history’s first Christian nation the
Armenians who find themselves in Empire’s crosshairs for the sake of dually protecting the Western
elite’s oil/gas as well as anti-Putin interests. History keeps repeating itself on a do-loop to infinity until
an educated public finally wakes up and learns from past history lessons that
every war, every enemy and every up and down economic turn including the
impending system collapse are merely preplanned, meticulously engineered events
perpetrated by the criminal ruling elite. As owners of the world’s largest
corporations and central banking system, they also have owned and controlled
the Western international
crime cabal consisting of the United Nations
(the predesignated one world government precursor) and all the national
governments that of course include the US Empire, Israel, Canada, Australia,
New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, Europe, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.

And right after last month’s military fighting flared up, within
a couple weeks after the latest uneasy ceasefire that’s been regularly violated
by the Azeris, it didn’t take long for the US to try and stir up more
anti-Russian protests. If it’s not the Turks and Azeris
vowing to finish the genocide started a century ago, it’s Hillary’s Victoria
Nuland making her South Caucasus rounds sinking her imperialistic claws into manipulating
another 2014 Ukraine-style color revolution in Armenia. Reminiscent of last
year’s “Electric Yerevan” protests, a couple weeks ago the US State Department
NGO vultures were at it again. Anything to drive a wedge between Armenia and
Russia as one more hostile Western puppet at Putin’s doorstep. Despite Russia
selling arms to Azerbaijan used to kill Armenians, Armenia knows that without the Russian air and
military bases, the mutual defense pact, the
additional Russian troops assembled at the Turkish border that includes an
S-400 antimissile system along with $200 million worth of promised armaments
from Russia, the Muslim wolves licking their chops at each border where the
sunrises and sunsets would be finishing the genocide started a century ago.

Also as part of the anti-Armenian blitzkrieg of lies, Azerbaijan
last week accused the Armenians of using internationally outlawed chemical weapons last month. After the Armenians turned over solid evidence of
ISIS-like beheadings, reflecting a strong presence of
Azeri Islamic State jihadists along with Turkish Grey Wolves joining the Azeri
army in the invasion, cutting off ears of elderly Armenian gunshot victims to
the UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights and the International Court of
Justice for further investigation, the tit for tat Azeris felt compelled to make false accusations against
Armenian soldiers. The Baku government is now claiming
that a round of white phosphorus was discovered in a field. Of course if the round is in fact
real, it could be used by either side for any number of purposes other than as
a flesh burning poisonous weapon. Unlike how US military used this chemical warfare to
kill civilians in Fallujah, Iraq or Israelis killing
Palestinian civilians in Gaza, white phosphorus can also
be used for illumination or for troop cover. But merely the accusation alone
that Armenians were potentially using it against Azeris is great publicity
fodder to demonize Armenians and a win for Azeri-US Western oil interests
against their “growing Armenian threat.” The Council on Foreign
Relations as the prime US foreign policy
architect made sure that the AP
article that ran the white phosphorus story was posted on its website.

Yet another deceptive ploy in the Azeri-Big Oil arsenal to turn
Armenia into a US Empire enemy is a documentary entitled
“The Endless Corridor” narrated by renowned British actor
Jeremy Irons to be released within days making a case that back during the
Nagorno-Karabakh War the Armenians committed the infamous Khojaly “genocide
massacre” of Azeri civilians. Again, the facts prove that the Azeris
cold-bloodedly allowed their own people to be killed in a false flag designed
to first pin it on their Armenian enemy and secondarily a convenient ploy to remove the first Azerbaijan president from office. The film has already made the international film
festival circuit in conjunction with the “Justice for Khojaly Campaign”
organized by Leyla Aliyeva, granddaughter of Haydar Aliyev and vice president of the
Haydar’s Foundation, the same opposition leader who helped engineer the false
flag, the impeachment of his predecessor and whose corrupt despotic son just
unilaterally attacked Nagorno-Karabakh a day after meeting with John Kerry last
month.

The truth is four years prior to Khojaly the Azeris were
repeatedly engaging in pogroms, ethnic cleansing Armenians living both in NK as
well as in other Azerbaijan cities. In the suburb of Sumgait 15 miles outside of Baku, Azeri agents provocateurs incited
riots in February 1988 spreading false rumors that Armenians were murdering
Azeri civilians in NK. According to Soviet reports, 26 Armenians were killed
during the ensuing 3-day rampage and Armenian residents in Azerbaijan were
forced to migrate to Armenian safe zones outside of Azerbaijan. Roving angry Azeri
mobs were allowed by local police to indiscriminately kill Armenians both on
the streets as well as break into homes and beat, rape, burn alive and mutilate
tortured victims. What came to be called the Sumgait syndrome was repeated over and over again in a number of cities and
towns in Azerbaijan leading up to the Nagorno-Karabakh War. So true to their
well-documented pattern, the Azeris felt compelled to come up with their own
propagandized version of non-reality to show that they too can be victims of
genocide committed by Armenians.

In recent years with its boo koo oil bucks the Baku government
has been pushing and lobbying hard for Khojaly to be officially recognized as
an Armenian genocidal massacre against an Azeri civilian population. As an
example of the fictionalized spin trying to pass itself off as the truth, a London Post article
says it all. Counter accusations of crimes
against humanity help to absolve the Azeris’ guilt for their own genocidal
ethnic cleansing against Armenians similar to revisionist claims that Armenians massacred
Turks in the last century’s first genocide
against Armenians during World War I that to this day Turkey still refuses to
admit. This latest bogus documentary coming out at this particular time is
specifically intended to strategically win over hearts and minds in the court
of world public opinion to create Armenia as the new vilified enemy in the
Azeri-Turkish-oil driven Western publicity campaign setting the stage for a new
Western backed proxy war against both the Republic of Armenia and its
“illegitimate” Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh in yet another war directed at
Putin’s Russia.

Overwhelming evidence demonstrates that the current extremely
corrupt, ruthless and deceitful Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev who
inherited his oppressive regime that’s among the world’s worst human
rights violators from his tyrannical father Heydar
has only stood to gain from the lies resurrecting the “Khojaly massacre”
misnomer. Azerbaijan’s staging the false flag event that began just before
midnight on February 25, 1992 played a major role in the removal from power of
the then first president of Azerbaijan, forcing him to flee for his life exiled
in Russia, making it convenient just a year later for Heydar Aliyev to secure
his family dictatorship’s reign of power. Journalists and photographers at the
Khojaly scene immediately following the staged crime that dared to report and
show the truth of what really happened at Khojaly have all been systematically assassinated to ensure that the official false narrative lies continue to be
propagated and utilized for propaganda purposes to this day. This is a very old
repeated pattern of murderous despots silencing both the truth and their
enemies similar to LBJ’s sinister role as
a JFK murdering conspirator and the long list
of once close associates murdered by the criminal Bush-Clinton cabal. Mankind’s bloody history on earth throughout the ages has been
made by evil, power-hungry, psychopathic leaders committing murder of perceived
rival threats to gain and maintain their power.

The facts behind Khojaly are as follows. The Azeri villages of
Khojaly and Shusha were the military headquarters for the Azeri armed forces
operating inside Nagorno-Karabakh. The Khojaly residents were mostly Meskhesian
Turks that had settled there during Soviet times. The Azeri forces had blockaded the only NK
airport also located in Khojaly, cutting off
food, fuel and medical supplies to the Nagorno-Karabakh capital of Stepanakert
ten miles away. After months of daily artillery shelling of Stepanakert killing hundreds of
Armenian civilians since October 1991, the Azeri
military was about to move onto the last NK village prior to attacking
Stepanakert itself. In order to prevent what would have been a decisive
crushing blow for the NK Armenians, the Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Forces knew
they must fight the Azeri army in Khojaly to break the Azeri blockade and
thwart the advancing threat to their NK capital. So for ten straight days prior to the attack on Khojaly, the Armenian forces broadcasted
over loudspeakers warning the villagers of the imminent attack. This was confirmed independently
by Russians as well as surviving Azeri-Turk
villagers.However, the Azeri military
did not ensure the Khojaly civilians’ safety by enforcing their evacuation from
the town. The Armenian troops had extended a safe corridor for civilian
departure from the village yet few in Khojaly took advantage.

So with more than fair enough ample warning, the Armenian
soldiers attacked the village on the night of February 25th. The
Azeri soldiers used the civilian population as human shields as they
fled. Eyewitnesses also documented Azeri
troops were firing on their own citizens as they frantically attempted to
escape through the safe passage corridor that night. Though Armenians had
successfully neutralized Azeri firepower, the village remained under Azeri
control for the next several months. The day after the Khojaly battle, the
Azeri Ministry of Interior released the death toll at 100
casualties. But soon after by early March 1992,
the Azerbaijan authorities began grossly inflating the numbers to over 1000
dead. Without any investigation or attention to Armenian accounts of what had
transpired, the Western press sensationalized the false flag event that then
gave the Baku government the notion to proclaim it a massacre and genocide
including more false accusations that Armenian soldiers had mutilated the dead
bodies.

However, a Czech journalist viewing Khojaly videos of the deceased on February 29th
and again on March 2nd observed that the latter video displayed
corpses that had been scalped. When the former Azeri president heard about this
during an interview with the Czech reporter, in April 1992 he asserted that his
political opponents led by daddy Aliyev had “organized” the Khojaly massacre to force his resignation. Moreover, the Czech journalist was
soon murdered. Yet another gaping anomaly is the discovery that the Azerbaijani
hoax-sters years later in their “remember Khojaly“ campaign actually used a
photo of victims from a Kosovo massacre taken in January
1999, then merely edited it and passed it off as falsified evidence of their so
called Khojaly massacre.

Further, Azeri human rights activist Ari Yunusof wrote in July 1992 in an Azerbaijani newspaper, “The town and its citizens were
deliberately sacrificed to the political goal,” referring to the
president’s opposition having the objective to ruin his career.

The number of alleged civilian victims varies widely. The
Armenian count maintains that only eleven were killed and that the Armenians the next day readily permitted Azeri
forces access to the dead bodies. Two Azeri journalists from a helicopter
claimed no more than 60 civilians killed. The independent group Helsinki Watch based on the Baku parliament report published a list of 181
total Khojaly Azeri-Turk casualties, 130 of them men and 51 women. Among the
181 dead were 13 children.

The lies behind Khojaly were then used a mere month and a half
later to provide justification under false pretense to carry out revenge in yet
more Azeri campaigns to ethnically cleanse civilians starting in the Armenian village of Maragha in April 1992. Shortly after the atrocities, crime scene
investigators came upon civilians still in shock outside their smoldering burnt
homes, discovering sawn off human heads, charred remains and vertebrae where victims were burned alive
in front of their families. 45 civilians were confirmed dead and another 100
had gone missing. Yet this tragic atrocity that was actually well documented
(unlike the Khojaly fabrication) was never publicized in the Western press.
Ironically and incredibly a year short of the quarter century anniversary of
this horror show the Western media again was strategically absent from
reporting more Armenian heads being chopped off last month by the next
generation of Azeri soldiers, terrorist militants and Turkish Grey Wolves.

It’s déjà vu all over again. Lies covering up the truth designed
to blame Armenians for atrocities they did not commit have been pushed by
Azerbaijan and swallowed up whole by Western press have attained political
victories of sorts in subsequent years while the Maragha and Sumgait ethnic
cleansings among others remain buried and rarely reported by the six oligarch
owned mega-media news corporations. With Big Oil and corruption ruling the day,
it’s not difficult to figure out why. And for that matter, it's no surprise
every April 24th Obama can't say the g-word because the US-Israel-Turkish crime
cabal will never say it either.

Along with the upcoming propaganda film painting Armenians in a
negative, bloodthirsty light, other recent events also are transparently politicized events reflecting this same overt bias against Armenians. Take the
recent Eurovision affair that’s supposed to be a talent contest showcasing
competing national artists. When after her performance the Armenian contestant
waved a Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh flag, Armenia was instantly disqualified
from the competition. Meanwhile last Saturday’s winner in Stockholm was a
Ukrainian Tartar singing the ballad “1944” about Crimean deportations under
Soviet dictator Stalin taken as a modern swipe at Putin over his “aggression”
to reclaim by consent the ethnic Russian residents of Crimea’s choice to rejoin
and become Russian citizens like their ancestors had been since the 1700’s.
Ukraine only became a separate sovereign nation when Ukrainian born Soviet
Premier Khrushchev as a favor to his homeland granted Ukraine its independence
from the Soviet Union in the 1950’s. Yet despite her anti-Russian song when the
Eurovision winner claimed her trophy, she preached only “peace and love” of all
people. Of course while the Armenian singer was banned and raked over the coals
for her unpopular political sentiment, the Eurovision winner was lauded and
rewarded for hers while another US Empire friend, oil-rich Azerbaijan’s singer
also placed high among the finalists. The West’s over-the-top political
hypocrisy even in “nonpolitical” affairs like the arts is so thoroughly
tainted, co-opted and corrupted, last weekend “something is rotten in the state
of [not] Denmark” but Sweden.

In a related affair in the competitive world of sports, a Kung
Fu martial arts competition held in Ukraine a few days ago was badly marred
when sore-losing Azeri adults supporting their athletes were defeated by a
12-year old Armenian boy from Nagorno-Karabakh. His Azeri competitor who had
just lost a second match in the semifinals to an Armenian kept fighting after
the bell which then incited a brawl caused
by 30 Aziri men aggressively jumping into the ring.
Eleven Armenian men and even the president of the Kung Fu Federation of Europe
jumped into the fray to defend the Armenian winner. The disgraceful sore
losers’ violent aggression was caught on video resulting in several men injured
during the ensuing fight including the Kung Fu president.

This debacle from the current sports world is a fitting metaphor
for the Azeri-Armenian conflict. The Armenians defending their homeland in the
Nagorno-Karabakh War were also outnumbered by this same 3 to 1 margin yet managed to win the war. 20,000 Armenians (8,000 from
Armenia) prevailed against a total of 64,000 combatants composed not just of
Azeris but Turks, Afghans and Chechen militants as well. And during last
month’s 4-day war the Azeri invasion was successfully thwarted where initial Aziri gains for
high ground inside Nagorno-Karabakh territory
were lost two days later to the defending Armenians, which prompted the Aliyev
to “magnanimously” call for a ceasefire after falsely claiming his forces had been
attacked by Armenians. Clearly it was more disingenuous propaganda war courting
world public opinion against Armenians. And then true to his deceitful
character, instead of actually cease firing, Aliyev’s forces only intensified
their fighting.

Again and again Armenians have victoriously stood the moral high
ground and met their ongoing life-and-death challenges to survive having to
constantly defend themselves against genocide at the hands of warring, violent,
hostile Muslim neighbors in the face of relentless Turkish-Azeri ethnic
onslaughts. And what’s disturbing is that truth has once again been largely
lost and obscured by the almighty dollar. Baku oil investments by the West have
conspired with corrupt Azeris to once again create more rationale for yet more
war against the latest designated enemy the Armenians, not for any Armenian
wrongdoing but simply for existing where they’ve existed for over a millennium.
But they are hardy, tenacious, enterprising survivors who refuse to lay down as
the latest sacrificial lambs so that unethical wealthy American and European
investors along with bloodthirsty Empire neocons can make billions in profit at
their expense while weakening Russia as a global power.

It’s finally time for the truth to prevail and the evil ones be
exposed for their ongoing countless crimes against humanity. With more
military forces lined up to attack Russia at its border now
than any time since 1941, Artsakh may just become the Austrian Archduke
incendiary device that sparks the third world war. In this late hour citizens
of the world must rise up and stop this homicidal madness, using the truth as
their weapon to expose and prevent the evildoers from doing us all in.

Joachim Hagopian is a West Point graduate and former US Army officer. He has written a manuscript based on his unique military experience entitled “Don’t Let The Bastards Getcha Down.” It examines and focuses on US international relations, leadership and national security issues. After the military, Joachim earned a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and worked as a licensed therapist in the mental health field with abused youth and adolescents for more than a quarter century. In recent years he has focused on his writing, becoming an alternative media journalist. His blog site is at http://empireexposed.blogspot.co.id/Joachim is also a regular contributor toGlobal Research, Sott.net and LewRockwell.com. Feel free to contact meat nandrtal[at]hotmail[dot]com